The recent Wayland update has added fractional scaling for HiDPI monitors on Linux, which is amazing for the UI and scaling of the Desktop. However, the Games which you have installed on Linux have also ‘scaled’ along with everything and thus recognize a monitor with ‘less’ resolution for some reason. For example, as you can …
Games not scaling on Wayland correctly? Here are the few workarounds. Read More »
Lutris is an open source Game Launcher and installer for Linux which can be used to install and launch games from several games stores such as Epic Games or Itch.io. It uses WINE as a backend so that you can run Windows games on Linux. You can easily add the installed games from here to …
‘Converter‘ acts as a GUI frontend for the ImageMagick command line image manipulation tool for those people who are not comfortable typing commands every time they have to modify something in their image. It makes the whole process a lot easier and faster. In this tutorial, we will discuss the installation, features, and usage of …
Converter – A GUI frontend for ImageMagick for image compression and conversion Read More »
If you play games on Linux desktop or Steam Deck, then you might have come across tools like Proton or WINE, which helps Windows-only games and applications to run on Linux. And although you can enable Proton from Steam, you don’t have any methods through which you can install forks of Proton or WINE on …
ProtonUp-Qt: Manage all the forks of Proton and WINE installations on your system Read More »
WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging applications which is available on mostly all Operating Systems because it offers a web interface and can run directly in the web browser. However, the web version requires you to launch a web browser and although you can set up a Web App if your browser supports …
Postman is a wonderful collaboration platform that aims to simplify API development and usage. It is widely used by millions of developers and companies across the world. Started in 2012, now this platform offers 75,000 open APIs and a wide range of tools that help developers and teams to share and collaborate on their APIs …
Haruna Video player is an open-source video player for Linux which uses the MPV media player at its backend. It attempts to provide n Interactive GUI for those users who do not want to learn keyboard shortcuts or go through customizations and optimizations using the config files. Haruna Video Player is based on the Qt …
Haruna Video Player : Another feature rich MPV frontend. Read More »
Flatpak applications are sandboxed and hence cannot access any other files on your system, while this is a good practice for privacy reasons, there are downsides to using Flatpaks as well. The downside is all the Flatpak applications take up large space on your disk, and they do not respect your Desktop theme. While you …
The problem with being up-to-date with all the software packages is that you have to encounter bugs. Sometimes the developers do not test their applications enough and push for updates everywhere and the end user has to suffer (note that FOSS applications do not come with a warranty). And sometimes when everything is perfect on …
QuickEMU is a Terminal based virtual machine manager. It is very lightweight and can automatically download the ISOs of any version of any Linux distribution (or even Windows) on your system in a simple and fast manner. It is very different from other Virtual Machine managers as it automatically does many things which you would …